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Sam Posey's BMW Days.. .And Nights the Sole American on BMW's Legendary IMSA Team of 1975, Sam Posey Brought Talent and Charisma to the Motorsport Campaign people Sam Posey's BMW days.. .and nights The sole American on BMW's legendary IMSA team of 1975, Sam Posey brought talent and charisma to the Motorsport campaign. By William Edgar Photography by Willlam Edgar, courtesy BMW NA mong BMW fans, Sam Posey may have gained his biggest fame rac- ing BMW's so-called "Batmobile" CSL coupes during the mid-1970s, but Posey is far more than just a racing driver. He's a man of remarkable versatility and expres- sion, traits that began in a youthful gift for words and art, and which took form, from adolescence on, in an escalating love of cars. His earliest, a home-built coaster named for a Connecticut lake edging the family estate, gave Sam hsfirst grasp of wheeled control and speed. What he called "The Mudge Pond Express" would serve again years later as the title for his stunning autobiography. Posey's candid book reveals an ungainly, overweight lad of patrician privilege who discovers both discipline and joy in the unlikely and perilous world of motor racing. Its pages have long delighted readers with his motorsport experiences, transporting them through the years from next-door Lime Rock to more distant Watkins Glen, Nassau, Sebring, Indianapolis, far-off Australia and Le Mans. Its chapters end where this story begins, at Kyalami, the South African grand , prix circuit to which Sam was summoned to test for what would become not only a sem- 7 inal step in his driving career, but an auspi- h cious American debut for BMW racing. To put BMW on the North American map, Motorsport brought over its ETCC- winning CSLs and readied them for IMSA competition in 1975. [See Bimmer #3l for the full story of the lMSA CSLs.] To drive them, team boss Jochen Neerpasch assembled a h quartet of drivers with true track talent and charisma-fiery Bavarian Hans-Joachim Stuck, persistent Brit Brian Redman, Swedish Formula One idol Ronnie Peterson and Connecticut Yankee Samuel Felton Posey. Bimmer AUGUST 2006 101 he recalls gravely. "So here I am, really rat- tled, I must admit-but I immediately felt comfortable in the race car. My third or fourth lap was actually pretty competitive. That made quite an impression on Neerpasch because, obviously, I couldn't have any sort of secret prior knowledge of anything about the CSL or the track. I just had to pull it out of my gut." What Sam would learn about the CSL was that, rather than drive smoothly he had to go flat out, up to 200 mph, sliding at extreme angles, braking fiercely-taking advantage of the anti-lock brake system that no other race cars had at the time. Neerpasch, today retired in the south of France, remembers Posey back then. "Sam fit very well in the whole team, and this was important for us, the personality of the driver? Eager to be part of it all, Posey signed a driving contract with BMW. In January 1975, two Mercedes transporters and a truck hauled Neerpasch's "American Team" from "I was on a mission.. ." Posey's BMW saga began in November its headquarters in racer Bobby Allison's Looking back on that 1975 Bimmer year, 1974, when the 30-year-old flew from Phoenix Alabama shop to Florida, where the BMW Posey recalls having been "a bit on a mis- to Johannesburg to try out for Neerpasch. show would debut at Daytona's 24 Hour sion." Ten years into a roadracing career in Arriving in the middle of the night, Posey race. The all-inclusive operation involved a which he'd already proven himself in Can- managed only a little sleep before driving pair of CSL racecars, four international driv- Am, Trans-Am and Formula 5000, Posey was Kyalami's unfamiliar circuit. He was further ers, five mechanics, two engineers and tons determined to do well with BMW in the disquieted by the death there of his friend of spares and support equipment. IMSA Camel GT series. "At that point," he Peter Revson seven months earlier. Up on the Daytona banking these box% says, "I needed the ride to boost my career." "I spotted where Peter had met his end," winged racing coupes from Deutschland 102 AUGUST 2006 Bimmer struck an unforgettable pose. No less impres- pulled four-hour stints. Posey would start tearing around, and actually I was tearing sive were the uniformed BMW team driv- the race in the #24 BMW (s/n 2275988) and around pretty well, too." ers-Peterson, Posey, Redman, Stuck. Peterson the #25 (probably s/n 2275985); On lap 28 and for the next eight hours the As then-IMSA president John Bishop Posey was teamed with Stuck whde Peterson PoseyIStuck CSL led the race, the recalls, "Interwoven throughout our existence and Redman shared the #25. PetersonIRedman CSL having lasted only 29 at IMSA, we were always trying to find some "For me as a youngster going to the laps. At midnight, Sam pulled in for fuel and competition for the Porsche. It made it look States," says Hans Stuck, "to meet up with a Hans took the seat. Soaked in perspiration, like we were anti-Porsche, and that got writ- guy like Sam Posey was very exciting. We had Posey reported the best of conditions to ten up a lot. Having a company like BMW our shakedown and testing in Daytona, and Neerpasch. It felt like victory. come in, of course, was really something." because Sam was the only one who knew the "It was one of those miraculous races track, Martin Braungart, the chief engineer where nobody can catch you," Posey relates, "We were going to win.. ." from BMW, sent him out first. After three laps the euphoria still evident. "It felt terrific on BMW qualified second and third on Sam came back, and Martin asked him, 'Is the banking, great to zoom around lesser Daytona's grid of 51 starters, bettered only everything fine? How are the temperatures?' cars. I was enjoying the team and they were by the potent Greenwood Corvette. Winning And Sam said, 'Yes. Everything is fine. Water enjoying me. We had the thing completely the Florida endurance race would be a bril- is only one hundred-thirty. Oil is only one wrapped up.. .when the crank broke." Hans liant payoff for all the planning and effort hundred-eighty.' But this, of course, was coasted in, done. Neerpasch put into his CSL program. Celsius-the car had Celsius gauges. Sam was Sam remembers the inlinesix's engine and Neerpasch had won Daytona driving a 907 thinking everything was fine, but the thing crankshaft, "It was very long and when you Porsche with Vic Elford in 1968heknew was already boiling like hell!" rewed it up it got a kind of sine curveit did- the 24 Hour and how to do it. The past and Posey adds, "It was pretty hard not to hit n't stay level on the bearings. We were run- present were in Jochen's big notebook, it off with Hans Stuck. He was just a won- ning more rpm than they had the year before. always carried with him. derful character. And, of course, I was The car was breathing better and, with the Driver changes would be every two and extremely lucky to be paired with him, higher rpm, the crank couldn't take it." a half hours, keeping minds and muscles because he was obviously the sort of favored fresh while other teams more typically son. If there was anything good to be had it "I just didn't want to screw up.. ." was going to be on our car, and he was going The #24 CSL retired with a three-lap lead (Opposite, top) Sam Posey caught In a reflee to be the quickest guy-and I was just going in the race's tenth hour. In the end, Porsche tlve mood at MldOhlo In July 1971 durlng to do a good steady job and we were going had its way at Daytona. Reigning IMSA the Formula 5000 race weekend. (Below) Posey to win. And that's exactly what was happen- champ Peter Gregg, driving a Brumos and the #24 CSL at Rlvenlde, lett, and at his ing about halfway into the Daytona race: We Carrera RSR with Hurley Haywood, won home track of Ume Rock, right, both 1975. were miles ahead of anybody, with Hans overall. For BMW, improved connecting rods Bimmer AUGUST 2006 103 and a switch from pliant Goodyears to stiffer ing RedmanIMoffat CSL #25. Posey com- "I thought it was appropriate Dunlops were in order for the season's next ments: "Around three in the afternoon, Hans to wreck the car.. ." race, the 12 Hours of Sebring. went in, did a stint, then I did a stint. I Posey's bliss would soon succumb, as he There, Neerpasch ordered Stuck and remember mine was at sunset, and I had to recalls with his characteristically prickly wit. Posey to set a pace that would be fast enough be very careful because the lighting is tricky "I thought it was appropriate to wreck the to break the Porsches while Redman and there, and some of the campfire smoke was Sebring-winning car-as fast as possible! In Australian Allan Moffat, subbing for drifting across the track-I just didn't want the esses at Road Atlanta I managed to accom- Peterson because this was a non-FIA race, to screw up, because at that point we were plish just that." Though it was a failure of cruised to the win.
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